Chapter 22: Lone Rider, Lone Wolf

It's in the middle of the desert, a girl on a motorbike singing but without deviating from her road...

Reza : Lux in principio

Lumen ad finem

Deus erit non revertatur hourglass

Et sit in tempus ire per

Centuriones de millions de vita

Somnium fit sidera

Et iterum, in cunis de vita et mors,

Cantare... Cantate,
Fortiter... Luceat nocte caelum Luceat, O Deus... Hum?

Reza had spotted some monsters behind her and ran at her, she slowed down her motorbike, a monster jumped and before being hit Reza teleported himself on a rock, the monsters of the desert looked at her and grunted as Reza took off her sunglasses, took out his gun from her belt.

Reza: Kill and survive. *Point the gun*

Monster: Growl

Reza: Kill and Survive

* In the evening *

Reza had set up camp

Reza: Well, it's a full moon tonight. Look, Rex, reassure me you're not going to turn into a werewolf.

Rex: *Bark*

Reza: I hope the others are all right, they must be furious, well it's time to sleep, if I can sleep*sleep*.

*In the dream*

Reza opened her eyes and saw who had nothing around her...

Reza: Isn't that true or what?

Ardyn: Well, well, well, you're the only princess

Reza: (Turns around) Ardyn! What the hell are you doing here?

Ardyn: It's simple, you didn't notice, we're in your dream.

Reza: Get out!

Ardyn: Going already, but I just got here.

Reza: Go away, leave me alone.

Ardyn: Oh why so much violence, I only want peace.

Reza: Don't mess with me! You're not real, you're just an illusion.

Ardyn: It's hurtful, I'm not physically here, but my mind is.

Reza: You're here just to remind me of my decay or to push me to death with your senseless words.

Ardyn: (Laughs) You're really pathetic, Cereza, you don't need me to remind you that you failed.

Reza: Shut up! Shut up! I don't want to hear any more

Ardyn: A princess who's been called a maid has nothing since she was a child, so let me set you free.

But when Ardyn touched Reza's arm, the ring shone on his finger, an explosion of magic sent him into the set and a light surrounded Reza and blinded him.

*Back to the real world*

Reza woke up with a start, but there was something strange, she felt as if everything had shrunk and when she looked down she didn't see her feet but paws instead.

Reza: Well, where are my feet?

She saw the puddle next to her and when she saw her reflection, she did not see that of a human but that of a wolf.

Reza: But what's happening?

Rex: Mistress?

Reza: * Turning around*

Rex: Mistress, is that you?

Reza: Rex but you're talking

Rex: No, that's who changed.

Reza: (Thinking) *May be due to my shape I can talk to him *Ah! I don't understand it anymore.

Rex: Calm down, mistress.

Reza: Rex, what happened to me?

Rex: Don't worry, I'll teach you about the dog life, you know it's not that bad.

Reza: (Smiles) We should go.

Rex: At your command, mistress.

Reza took one last look at his reflection before he left...

Reza: As I'm going to show the others now, they're going to think I'm a monster, I just have to move on.

Reza then in her new form continued her journey now with the help of Rex who helped her to get used to it, she felt like she knew very well where she was going as if she was being guided by something.

Reza: Where he's from, he'd say he wants him to follow him

Reza then followed that fox, and after a few meters he stopped and got closer to her, Reza of course was still suspicious.

Fox: Relax young princess, you have nothing to fear from me.

The fox gave way to a ghostly woman dressed in black and gold with a silver crown on her head.

Reza: Wait, you're the one that I saw in my dreams when I was a child and also the one who gave me this crystal, who are you?

Clarissa: I'm Clarissa Lucis Caelum, your ancestor

Reza: My ancestor, so you are the ancient queen of legend that my father told me...

Clarissa: Indeed I was, crowned by the oracle of my time Balder Lux Fleuret

Reza: What's happening to me, Your Majesty, am I cursed?

Clarissa : No Cereza you are not cursed, this form is only a protection from the magic of the shadows.

Reza: Protection?

Clarissa : When this hemisphere of darkness wanted to attack you your ring reacted by transforming you into this form to protect you, it is only the appearance of the guardian that you wear since your birth and you woke it up.

Reza: I remember at Altissia, that power...

Clarissa: You don't have to be afraid of it Cereza, trust in him... trust in yourself, you can take human form again Close your eyes and concentrate...

Reza closed her eyes, emptied her mind and a big wolf appeared to her when she opened her eyes. She was human again and was surprised to find a sword in her hands.

Reza: *Look at the sword* Airgetlàm, you're Airgetlàm, majesty...

She was surprised she couldn't find anyone, but she still heard his voice

Clarissa: Here you are now dressed in your royal weapon, hurry and when the king becomes one with the crystal, join me in my tomb as the coronation approaches...

Reza: Coronation, what a coronation wait*sigh* come on Rex.

Reza resumed her journey, she didn't know how much time had passed, but she knew that she had now crossed the border and was now in Nilfiem territory. In the freezing cold a wolf and a dog were running through the snow, the sound of their paws under their feet.
Deciding to take a break, they stopped under a fir tree, Reza heard a noise, that of a motorbike stopping, Reza took human form Hidden she saw a person from behind, she approached slowly from behind before throwing herself on him but against all odds.

... : Re, Reza!

Reza: Prompto!

Here's a great chapter for today The song of this chapter and one that I wrote I put here in description, sorry if there are mistakes in the Latin,
my proofreader is not very reliable